Ghost hunters claim to have captured on camera the moment a possessed doll spoke to them.

Paranormal investigators The Haunted Hunts believe the doll, called Grace, has been taken over by a spirit following a recent visit to one of North Wales’ most haunted buildings.

The team have owned the doll for around three years but things took a spooky turn after she was used during a ghost hunt at Nantclwyd y Dre in Ruthin.

Nantclwyd y Dre was built in 1435 – making it Wales’ oldest dated timbered town house – and is believed to be home to several ghouls and even a poltergeist.

The building has been used as home, a school for girls, a rectory, and a lodge for judges over the last few centuries and ever since it was opened up as a museum by Denbighshire County Council in 2007 there have been many ghostly sightings.

The Grace doll which is believed to be haunted following a visit to Nantclwyd y Dre in Ruthin (Image: The Haunted Hunts)

During the investigation in Ruthin, Grace was knocked from a chair and when the doll was taken back to the team’s base it moved on its own several times.

The team became so disturbed by the doll’s strange behaviour that they staged an “emergency investigation” in a bid to find out if a spirit from Nantclwyd y Dre had attached itself to Grace.

Danny Moss, lead investigator at The Haunted Hunts, told the Daily Post: “We have had the doll for about three years and it has been used at many locations up and down the country to help attract ghost children and we’ve never had a problem with it.

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“Recently we took the Grace doll to Nantclwyd y Dre in Ruthin and she was knocked off a chair but not a lot else happened to her.

“We took her back to our HQ and the next three mornings we found her in three different positions than where she had been left. On one occasion we even drew chalk around her to see if she really was being moved by something and the doll had been moved.

“We decided to do an investigation just on the Grace doll to get to the bottom of what was going and it was just beyond weird.”

Ghost hunters believe a spirit has attached itself to this doll (Image: The Haunted Hunts)

The investigators took Grace to Ye Olde Kings Head in Chester to try and find answers – but got more than they bargained for.

Mr Moss said: “We used a spirit box and asked her several questions and at one point we did get a woman’s voice come through but you just couldn’t make out what it was saying.